Bibliographies

The following are bibliographies created by the research libraries staff in support of permanent collection exhibitions and special exhibitions.

SAM History and Collections

American Art

• American Art at SAM Before 1900
• American Art Deco and the Seattle Art Museum
• The American Landscape's "Quieter Spirit": Early Paintings by Frederic Edwin Church
• Andrew Wyeth: Remembrance
• Beauty and Bounty: American Art in an Age of Exploration
• Edward Hopper’s Women
• George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings
• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery
• Modernism
• Our National Game

Asian Art

• Asian Collections and Exhibitions of SAM
• A Black-and-White World: The Art and Lessons of Chinese Rubbings
• Chinese Art: A Seattle Perspective
• Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats
• Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints
• Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur
• Inspired Simplicity: Contemporary Art from Korea
• Japan Envisions the West: 16th–19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum
• Live Long and Prosper: Auspicious Motifs in Asian Art
• Looking West, Finding East
• Luminous: The Art of Asia
• Many Arrows from Rama's Bow: Paintings of the Ramayana
  
• New Old and New New
• Pattern Richness in Modern Japanese Textiles
• Shirin Neshat: Tooba
• Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art
• Transforming Traditions: Japanese and Korean Art since 1800
• Where have they been? Two overlooked Chinese female artists
• Women's Paintings from the Land of Sita

Australian Aboriginal and Oceanic Art

• Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection
• Australian Aboriginal and Oceanic Art at SAM
• Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise

European Art

• French Painting from SAM’s Permanent Collection
• The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
• Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise
• Michelangelo Public and Private: Drawings for the Sistine Chapel and Other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti
• Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London
  
  

General/Multicultural

• A Bead Quiz
• Black Art I
• Order and Border
• Our National Game
• The View From Here: The Pacific Northwest 1800–1930

Modern and Contemporary Art

• A Better Promise
• Alden Mason
• Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act
• A Quartet of Suits
• A Transparent Legacy: Studio Glass Gifted to SAM from the Collection of Jon and Mary Shirley
• Edward Hopper’s Women
• Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Enrico David
• Freeing the Figure
• French Painting from SAM’s Permanent Collection
• Fresh Impressionism
• Gaylen Hansen
• Geoff McFetridge: in The Mind
• James Ensor and Georg Baselitz: Graphic Works

• Kurt
• love fear pleasure lust pain glamour death — Andy Warhol Media Works
• Modernism
• Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
• Nicolas Provost: Selected Works
• Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris
• Reclaimed: Nature and Place Through Contemporary Eyes
• SAM Next: Corin Hewitt
• SAM Next: Cris Brodahl
• SAM Next: Eli Hansen and Oscar Tuazon
• SAM Next: Heide Hinrichs
• SAM Next: Mika Tajima
• Shirin Neshat: Tooba
• Smoke and Mirrors
• Tack and Jibe
• Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949–78
• Theaster Gates: The Listening Room
• Titus Kaphar: History in the Making

Native American Art

• Behind the Scenes: The Real Story of the Quileute Wolves
• Northwest Coast Native Art at SAM
• Song, Story, Speech: Oral Traditions of Puget Sound’s First People

Northwest Art

• Alden Mason
• Gaylen Hansen
• Painting Seattle: Kamekichi Tokita and Kenjiro Nomura
• SAM Next: Eli Hansen and Oscar Tuazon
• The View From Here: The Pacific Northwest 1800–1930
  

Photography

• Everything Under the Sun: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham